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volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
From Aristotle’s Poetics to Jane Austen’s Pride and [...]

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I periodically pull a random book from the shelves here at the library where I serve as a librarian and include a quote for discussion.  Today’s is a doozy.
Clarence Jordan was the controversial author the Cotton Patch “translation” of portions of the New Testament.  They are known for their colloquialisms and often shockingly worded interpretations [...]

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This is the title page from Volume 1 of the classic set, The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Fathers down to A. D. 325. As the name indicates, it is a collection of writings by the Church Fathers prior to (”ante”-) the Council of Nicaea in 325. You can read more about the Council [...]

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